@WModes

Artist, Historian, University Educator, SJW, Anarchist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist (they/he). Join me on Mastodon: @wmodes@mastodon.art

 Santa Cruz, California
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Joined November 2013
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"Maybe it is the stir craziness of pandemic lockdown, but I find myself on real estate sites trying to picture myself living another life." medium.com/@wesmodes/the-imp…

“Where Do I Belong?”

A perpetual journey to find our people and our place in the world

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Anyone else in Los Angeles for this weekend's @GLASanimation festival? Is there a Friday night pre-party? #glasanimation
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Hey Cincy: @uc_health made me ration my diabetes meds for 3 months just to get a “new patient” visit. 🧵
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Now imagine how @uc_health treats patients who have less means, education, and wherewithal to advocate for themselves. 🧵
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And zoom out: the US is ranked around 38th in healthcare, near the bottom of the developed world—and unlike almost every peer country, we still don’t have universal healthcare. Stories like this aren’t a glitch in the system; they are the system. Universal healthcare for all!
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Seeking Tales and Sipping Whiskey in a Shack Floating Down the Bayou nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/lo…

Seeking Tales and Sipping Whiskey in a Shack Floating Down the Bayou (Published 2025)

The shanty boat was bound for New Orleans, but the destination mattered less than the challenges, chance encounters and lessons learned along the way.

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Ready to play a version of Settlers of Catan that challenges the "empty land" myth? Here is my Post-Colonial Catan game mod. link.medium.com/tARO1DvYuDb

Post-Colonial Catan: A Story of Indigenous Agency

The “empty land myth” of so-called Catan is called into question by the inconvenient presence of indigenous people. Far from being vacant…

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@magpiekilljoy sorry to hit you up on this POS platform, but best place to reach you? You must somewhere sometime have published a list of your favorite sci-fi. Can you point me to that list?
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Naturally I tried to Google it, but googling "Margaret Killjoy sci-fi favorite list" gets everyone's favorite Margaret Killjoy books.
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A professor at Wharton REQUIRES his students to use AI and ChatGPT in his courses. In one assignment, he asks explicitly asks students to *cheat*. "AI is an emerging skill." Here are the rules everyone gets on Day 1:
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Can I Let My Dog Do Home Repair? whatcantmydogeat.com/can-i-l…
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Fug it. Join me over here: tinyurl.com/393n26pn
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Who has a big fucking fragile little boy's ego? Asking for a friend. @elonmusk
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On this piece of shit social media platform you can no longer place your #mastodon link in your profile.
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Burning Man Live@burningmanlive30 Nov 2022
Interdependence at BRC? If it happened, why didn't we know it, or feel it, or enjoy it? @Actiongrl swaps stories with Buck Down, a 25-year Burner, Gate Manager & author of “What the Fuck Just Happened at Burning Man?” burningman.org/podcast/buck-…

Buck Down and The Cult That Joins You

"You gotta let go with this notion that any one year of Burning Man is quantifiably different or better. It's not. The process of doing it together IS THE ART. When we first started doing this, when...

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Elon Musk bans antifascist publisher @crimethInc at urging of far-right troll. crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/el…

Elon Musk Bans CrimethInc. from Twitter at the Urging of Far-Right Troll

At the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @crimethinc Twitter account—a partisan move paving the way for fascist violence.

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Fuck You I Quit
@fuckyouiquit21 Sep 2022
If you work hard enough your boss can earn enough for his second Ferrari Via u/_perchance
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Scott Hechinger
@ScottHech23 Sep 2022
A young woman was found dismembered in Brooklyn. Truly awful case of what appears to be long running domestic abuse. NYPD previously responded at least 6 different times. Police don’t prevent or deter violence. They just don’t.
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Always said by those who work less hard and benefit the most from the exploitation of laborers: “Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Paul Fairie@paulisci19 Jul 2022
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
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